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Ordnance Survey. Map makers to the world?
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I am sure that most people now that one role of the Ordnance Survey is
producing maps. Well as a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists,
I organise trips,vists etc for the Coventry group. I was given a contact
name and address for the Ordnance Survey to arrange a vist for our group.
The person replied was only to happy to give us a talk, but could we please
send him a map as how to reach the venue, Jaguar Cars, Coventry!
73 Andy G6ULX @ GB7RBY.
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MAKE MY DAY - SUCKER
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Recently, I have been reading bulletins on stopping junk mail coming
through the letter box. So why stop there, how do we stop the door to
door salesman/canvasser from disturbing our evening meal, bath or
night of passion.
Whilst I don't have the answer, I do have a way of making there
intrusion pleasureable.
One cold and wet winters evening, I had just arrived home from work
after having a real stinker of day. On entering the street I spotted
a group of about six canvassers on the street corner having a scrum
down. I thought, just what I need, being pestered by you sods. I'll
soon sort you lot out. I went into the house, threw my wet anorak
on the settee ( I always do ), and went to find that piece of purspex
I kept under the stairs. Fitting a bulldog clip, a piece of paper, I
place it on the unit at the side of the front door along with a pen.
I did'nt have long to wait before the knock came on the door. Actually
this is quite blaffling because they could have rang the bell, perhaps
ringing the bell is'nt in their script.
Anyway, I got up and went to answer the door, picking up the clip
board and pen. I opened the door and before the moron could utter a
word, I said "Good Evening, I'm doing a survey as well. How big of a
pratt do you really feel, knocking on doors in the pouring rain, and
being told to sod off ?". Well she was fairly gobsmacked. Smiling as
the rained dripped off the end of her nose, She replied "So your not
interested then". I shook my head and closed the door.
I often wonder what she was selling, but it still brings a smile to
my face when I recall that cold winters evening.
73 Kevin DE G6HNQ @ GB7CRG.#11.GBR.EU
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TELESALES
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A work colleague of mine had just been on a course for running a 'help-desk'
service and had been taught a lot about the 'correct' way to answer the phone
in order to put the enquirer at ease etc.
When confronted by a telesales-person, she listened intently, then began to
recite some of the things she had learned on the course, about the most
efficient way of handling phone-callers. After about a couple of minutes,
she said " i am sure that you could benefit from one of our three-day
telephone use courses; can i take your name and address and send you some
literature...."
She then went on to detail the costs of the 3-day course etc..... The poor
tele-sales person was most surprised! This was done over a 'hands free'
loudspeaker-phone; the rest of us in the office had to exercise much self
control to stop our titters, giggles etc being overheard!
73 de Pete G6WBJ@GB7SDN
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HOW TO MAKE LOADSA MONEY !
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Looking at the bank notes in my pocket I noticed a strange thing...
the five pound note had -:
(C) THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND 1990
on each side of the note.......
The ten pound note does not have any such markings on it. Does this mean we
are free to copy ten pound notes ? Is this the reason why there are so many
fake "tenners" around recently ? I haven't been able to look at any bigger
denominations of notes - I'm not rich enough to own any, so don't know if
copyright exists on those.
Oh well, back to the printing press.
73 de Nick G6NHK @ GB7DDX
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The following story is quoted from "ITs a funny thing":-
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The Big Blue system was down. Seriously down. The local engineer couldn't
fix it. Nor could the Regional Team. Or the National Manager!
In the end, they called for the top European guy. He came, from Paris, smoking
a curious brand of cigarettes. He looked, prodded and poked about, and then
made a long call to the Paris office for a 8 inch diskette to arrive by plane
and collected by courier from the airport.
The courier met the aircraft. We all saw him arrive. He roared up to the door,
kicked out the stand of his 1100cc motorbike and raced into reception.
As he ran, he took from his back pocket the "Most Urgent" envelope and
carefully unfolded it . . . .
73, Dave g8uyz @ gb7max
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FRIEND OR FOE?
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I wonder how many like us watch Heimat Melodie on RTL PLUS every Wednesday
night at 19-15 GMT. ? Every week there is a joke of the week related that is
sent in by a viewer. The one broadcast wins a rather unusual tie. Well I
nearly choked on this week's joke from Switzerland. I have slightly obscured
the 'naughty' words.
There was a mouse on a farm that was being chased by a cat. The mouse fled
into the cow shed and pleaded with one of the cows to help it.
One cow immediately dropped a load on the mouse, but with just a small hole
out of which the mouse could see. The cat saw the mouse and dug it out and
ate it.
The moral of the story is :-
Not everyone that puts you in the .... is your enemy and the one that pulls
you out of the .... is not necessarily your friend. !!!
73 De Denis G0KIU @ GB7BAD
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ITV THIS MORNING !
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I nearly fell out of bed laughing this morning with a cup of tea in my hand.
Peter Cushing was one of the guests and he asked Jimmy Greaves :-
"Why was India not invited to be in the World Cup?"
Greavsies answer was....
"Because if they were given a corner they would build a shop on it."
73 De Denis G0KIU @ GB7BAD
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** Hallelujah! **
(True story)
This came from a senior member of our local radio society. (The meeting had
degenerated into a story and joke telling session, as freezing fog had kept
all but the hardiest members away.)
His daughter was teaching some Special Needs kids, and was trying to get
them to come up with the word "Hallelujah", which they already knew. Not
realising how earnest she was getting about the whole thing, she waved her
arms in the air and said "Come on now, what word do all good Christians cry
out to show their joy, and their love of God?"
After a slight pause, light dawned in a young lad's eyes, and sticking his
hand up firmly he shouted "BINGO!!".
Oh well...
73 from Rick G4BLT @ GB7WRG in Wakefield - Wed 11 Dec 1991 16:22 UTC
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